Yahoo! Ignores Million-Person Protest (for Freedom) on same page it Featured 150-Person Petition (against Cheney)
Over the past hour or so, I’ve been regularly checking Yahoo!’s homepage to see if they offer any news or link any headlines about the massive Tea Party protest against big government in our nation’s capital. With as many as two million people attending, you’d think it would merit more attention than a petition with only 150 signatures against naming a center in honor of former Vice President Cheney.
And this multi-million person multitude gathered in just one day whereas it took the petition organizer a year to gather all those signatures.
UPDATE: On its homepage, Yahoo! does provide a link to an article on the President’s health care speech in Al Franken’s home state where he drew a crowd, approximately 1% the size of the crowd in Washington (that is, of the smallest estimate of the crowd’s size):
“I will not accept the status quo. Not this time. Not now,” the president told an estimated 15,000 people during a rally that had every feel of a campaign event, right down to chants of “Fired up, ready to go!” and “Yes, we can!”
Feel of a campaign event? Hmmm. . . . not the greatest way to govern. That aricle gave just one paragraph to the much larger protest in the nation’s capital:
While the president cleared out of town, thousands of people marched along Pennsylvania Avenue to the Capitol to protest Obama’s approach on health care and what they say is out-of-control federal spending. At the protest, people chanted “enough, enough” and “We the people” and carried signs that said “Obamacare makes me sick” and “I’m Not Your ATM.”
“Thousands of people?” Technically, that’s accurate as 1.2 million is thousands of people, but I’d bet this were an pro-Obama rally, the AP would be using the actual estimate.
Oh, and, Obama keeps misrepresenting his critics. Since he says we should call out those who represent what’s in his plan (which he still has not released), can’t we call him out too on saying his critics want to do nothing. And the media for not telling how large the protest against big governmnt really is.
UP-UPDATE: Finding a CNN reporter at the rally asking about Joe Wilson, John Hinderaker writes, “Why that made sense I’m not sure, apart from the liberal media’s determination to deflect attention toward Wilson and away from Americans’ widespread dissatisfaction with the Obama administration.” Then, he offers this telling comment (emphasis added): “We are living in a weird era, in which news organizations studiously avert their eyes from the news.“
UP-UP-UPDATE: If one million people rally against big government and the MSM pays their protest no heed, does it still make a sound?
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This issue of coverage is starting to make me really mad. The police estimate that there were 1.2 million people there, and you really have to look to find any sort of mention of that anywhere in the so-called mainstream media websites. Yes, of course, I knew they were biased, but I wouldn’t think they could so blatantly ignore this. 1.2 million is more than showed up at any number of the protests which have received special attention for years.
Comment by Kurt — September 12, 2009 @ 6:54 pm - September 12, 2009
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“I will not accept the status quo. Not this time. Not now,” the president told an estimated 15,000 people during a rally that had every feel of a campaign event, right down to chants of “Fired up, ready to go!” and “Yes, we can!”
Is it just me or is Obama sounding more and more like a Mussolini with better-toned abs and pecs?
Comment by MarkJ — September 12, 2009 @ 8:35 pm - September 12, 2009
If one million people rally against big government and the MSM pays their protest no heed, does it still make a sound?
Yeah but if you’re tone deaf, you won’t hear/see it.
Comment by ThatGayConservative — September 12, 2009 @ 8:57 pm - September 12, 2009
The last count I heard was over two million.
Glenn Beck should open every show with footage of it.
It might be the only accurate portrayal most people ever see.
Comment by democratsarefascists — September 12, 2009 @ 9:05 pm - September 12, 2009
The only words that come into my mind every time I watch/hear Obama speak are two: “Sieg Hiel!
Comment by John in Dublin CA — September 12, 2009 @ 9:17 pm - September 12, 2009
“With as many as two million people attending, ”
This is so pathetically sad, it isn’t even funny.
From HotAir – as wingnutty as it gets: ( at 8:30PM)
“As of a few hours ago, D.C. police were refusing to make any estimates but ABC got some unspecified city officials on the record claiming there 60,000 to 75,000 people there.”
Comment by Tano — September 12, 2009 @ 9:45 pm - September 12, 2009
Checked in with ABC news, and their “unspecified officials” were actually the DC Fire Department estimate.
“approximately 60,000 to 70,000 people flooded Pennsylvania Ave, according to the Washington DC Fire Department.”
Comment by Tano — September 12, 2009 @ 9:55 pm - September 12, 2009
Tea Party – “We are living in a weird era, in which news organizations studiously avert their eyes from the news.“…
Thank you for submitting this cool story – Trackback from PunditKix…
Trackback by PunditKix — September 12, 2009 @ 10:02 pm - September 12, 2009
Just to update, the protests are now the 4th most read US article and 3rd from the top in the Top Stories box on Yahoo.
Comment by Richard — September 12, 2009 @ 10:23 pm - September 12, 2009
I think the single most important benefit we gain from lefty is when he/she opens their mouth; without fail, up pops 5 more conservative activists and the crowd keeps getting bigger.
Comment by Steven E. Kalbach — September 13, 2009 @ 12:40 am - September 13, 2009
Try this, Tano.
http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2009-01-19-crowd_N.htm
By that, there’s no way the crowd was only 60-70,000.
Comment by ThatGayConservative — September 13, 2009 @ 3:43 am - September 13, 2009
Richard, thanks for the tip. When I checked Yahoo!’ main page, I could find no reference to the rallies whatsoever. Did you perchance to do a screen capture?
Comment by B. Daniel Blatt — September 13, 2009 @ 4:38 am - September 13, 2009
Tano, calling a sourced number “pathetically sad” shows just how pathetically sad you are, frequently a sight you call “pathetically sad.” I included “as many as” because I had no clue how big the rally was and that was the largest number I could find; it was even included in a news article.
And from the guide that TGC linked above which describes how the Park Service measures crowd size, it’s clear the crowd easily exceeded a quarter-million.
So, maybe it wasn’t “as many as” 2 million, but every number I have seen pegged the turnout in a range from the high six figures to “as many as” 2 million.
And please, before you comment on something you cut and paste into your comment box, consider the meaning of the words I use. Your lesson for today is the meaning of “as many as.”
Comment by B. Daniel Blatt — September 13, 2009 @ 4:56 am - September 13, 2009
Oh, and Tano, even if there were only 70,000 at the rally, that’s still more than 150 and it still didn’t get a Yahoo! headline like that miniscule Cheney protest did.
Comment by B. Daniel Blatt — September 13, 2009 @ 5:34 am - September 13, 2009
Remember how much publicity Louie Fahrakan’s non-million man million man march got before during and after that lame event? Not a big fan of some of the content on Fox news (the screaming heads shows), but when the rest of the media ignores something as unprecedented as this, well, it’s no wonder Fox’s rating continue to increase while the others erode.
Comment by Sonicfrog — September 13, 2009 @ 1:19 pm - September 13, 2009
AOl Also didn’t have any mention of Yesterdays Protest.
Comment by gary — September 13, 2009 @ 4:42 pm - September 13, 2009
“if there were only 70,000 at the rally, that’s still more than 150 and it still didn’t get a Yahoo! headline”
OK Dan, I guess we can find common ground here. You admit the crowd was only 70K, and I will agree with you that it still deserved a Yahoo headline.
We cool now?
Comment by Tano — September 13, 2009 @ 8:50 pm - September 13, 2009
Libs like Tardo are just outraged because their protests are all the left has. We have talk radio, they tried to copy it, and failed miserably. We have successful cable news, they tried to copy it, twice, and failed miserably. Now we have shown that conservatives concerned about the constitutional role of government can out-rally them as well, and being the responsible adults, we actually pick up after ourselves, they mess themselves and wait for government to clean up after them.
Comment by American Elephant — September 14, 2009 @ 5:14 am - September 14, 2009
“Libs like Tardo are just outraged because their protests are all the left has.”
We have the government, dude, so suck on it.
Comment by Tano — September 14, 2009 @ 9:29 am - September 14, 2009
And there’s the civility from the left we all expect. You also have the terrorists and the truthers that the President associates with, so you can keep them.
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